Bil Dwyer was an American cartoonist. Dwyer worked at the
Columbus Dispatch with Milton Caniff. Dwyer left for New York and sold gag cartoons to publications
such as
College Humor and
Collier’s.

Both Dwyer and Caniff ended up working at the King Features Syndicate and Dwyer was
appointed to take over the
Dumb Dora strip from Paul Fung in 1932. According to Milton Caniff in the book
Milton Caniff: Conversations, during the first few months of Dwyer's new assignment, Dwyer who was accustomed
to creating single panels struggled to get the daily strips finished. Caniff assisted
Dwyer by ghosting the female characters and completing some of the inking in addition
to his regular duties.

Dumb Dora was cancelled in 1936 and in 1951 Dwyer created the short lived strip,
Sandy Hill. The Register and Tribune Services distributed
Sandy Hill until 1954. In the 1970s Dwyer formed the Merry Mountaineers publishing company and
illustrated humorous booklets about Southern and Appalachian culture with titles such
as the
Dictionary for Yankees and Other Uneducated People and
Southern Appalachian Mountain Cookin'.

For the
Dumb Dora strip, the daily and Sunday cartoons are arranged separately in chronological order.
When Mother Was a Girl is arranged chronologically. The sketches are arranged by the title of the strip.

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